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by Senator Baker. It is intended to permit=20
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collection.>I would like to make them available to our=20>students and faculty, by transferring them to DVD and cataloging them.>Can I copy them?>Can I catalog them?>thanks for your input--and happy summer!>>Maureen Tripp>Media Librarian>Media Services Center>180 Tremont St. 3rd Floor>Boston, MA 02116>maureen_tripp@emerson.edu>(617)824-8676>>>>VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and=20>lively discussion of issues relating to the=20>selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic=20>control, preservation, and use of current and=20>evolving video formats in libraries and related=20>institutions. It is hoped that the list will=20>serve as an effective working tool for video=20>librarians, as well as a channel of=20>communication between libraries,educational=20>institutions, and video producers and distributors.

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shall be construed to limit the reproduction and distribution by lending
of a limited number of copies and excerpts by a library or archives of an
audiovisual news program, subject to clauses (1), (2), and (3) of
subsection (a)

Clause (3) provides that nothing in section
108 is intended to limit the reproduction and distribution by lending
of a limited number of copies and excerpts of an audiovisual news
program. This exemption is intended to apply to the daily newscasts of
the national television networks, which report the major events of the
day. It does not apply to documentary (except documentary programs
involving news reporting as that term is used in section
107), magazine-format or other public affairs broadcasts dealing with
subjects of general interest to the viewing public.
The clause was first added to the revision bill in 1974 by the adoption
of an amendment proposed by Senator Baker. It is intended to permit
libraries and archives, subject to the general conditions of this
section, to make off-the-air videotape recordings of daily network news
casts for limited distribution to scholars and researchers for use in
research purposes. As such, it is an adjunct to the American Television
and Radio Archive established in Section 113 of the Act
[
2 U.S.C.
170] which will be the principal repository for television broadcast
material, including news broadcasts, the inclusion of language indicating
that such material may only be distributed by lending by the library or
archive is intended to preclude performance, copying, or sale, whether or
not for profit, by the recipient of a copy of a television broadcast
taped off-the-air pursuant to this clause.

Summer project time: =
Our dept. has recorded breaking news stories, presidential press
conferences, etc. over the past decade. These tapes are on VHS, and
are not cataloged in the collection.
I would like to make them available to our students and faculty, by
transferring them to DVD and cataloging them.
Can I copy them?
Can I catalog them?
thanks for your input--and happy summer!

VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of
issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic
control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in
libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve
as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel
of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video
producers and distributors.

"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail,
all of life
presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles."
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--Guy Debord

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VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.